{"id":534265,"date":"2026-04-01T06:58:21","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T06:58:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/534265\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T06:58:21","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T06:58:21","slug":"sabres-break-tie-late-defeat-islanders-for-100th-point-of-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/534265\/","title":{"rendered":"Sabres break tie late, defeat Islanders for 100th point of season"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jack Quinn<\/a> and Tage Thompson<\/a> each had a goal and an assist for the Sabres, who have won two straight after a three-game losing streak (0-1-2). Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen<\/a> made 25 saves.<\/p>\n

Buffalo moved back into first place in the Atlantic Division, two points ahead of the Tampa Bay Lightning, who lost 4-1 to the Montreal Canadiens but have played one fewer game.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think overall tonight we were responding well,\u201d Luukkonen said. \u201cIt was a slower-paced game. We were creating, but still they tried to slow our play down. I feel like we stuck with it. Especially after that tying goal we didn\u2019t give them much and started to create more. Overall, I think we played really good today.\u201d<\/p>\n

Brayden Schenn<\/a> had a goal and an assist, Bo Horvat<\/a> had three assists, and Ilya Sorokin<\/a> made 29 saves for the Islanders (42-29-5), who were coming off an 8-3 loss to the Pittsburgh Penguins on Monday.<\/p>\n

New York remained in third place in the Metropolitan Division, one point ahead of the Columbus Blue Jackets, who lost 5-2 to the Carolina Hurricanes but have a game in hand.<\/p>\n

\u201cLast game we gave up eight goals, so, I mean, you want to make sure you play well defensively, and our tracking was outstanding,\u201d New York coach Patrick Roy said. \u201c… I thought we did a good job, and we played a tight playoff hockey game, and it was a hard-fought game. I thought both teams had some good looks, and both teams played well defensively.\u201d<\/p>\n

Krebs put Buffalo ahead 3-2 at 16:59 of the third period. Alex Tuch<\/a> skated around the net before sending a backhand pass out front to Krebs, who one-timed it past the outstretched blocker of Sorokin.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou could tell that shift that (Tuch) had his legs and he was feeling it,\u201d Krebs said. \u201cHe had a lot of speed there doing his thing that he usually does, and I kind of had a feeling he was going to throw it in there, and I just had to be in the right spot at the right time.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bowen Byram<\/a> scored an empty-net goal at 18:17 to make it 4-2 before Schenn scored from the side of the net with two seconds remaining for the 4-3 final.<\/p>\n

Quinn gave Buffalo a 1-0 lead with a power-play goal at 14:19 of the first period. Fresh off the bench, Quinn picked up the puck at the left point and skated it to the circle, where he scored with a wrist shot that beat Sorokin to the far side.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jack Quinn and Tage Thompson each had a goal and an assist for the Sabres, who have won…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":534266,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5110],"tags":[5,122,3328,159,5190,5189,4],"class_list":{"0":"post-534265","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-islanders","8":"tag-hockey","9":"tag-islanders","10":"tag-new-york","11":"tag-new-york-islanders","12":"tag-newyork","13":"tag-newyorkislanders","14":"tag-nhl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116328157770136450","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=534265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534265\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/534266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=534265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=534265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=534265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}